Topic: Born This Way

It took two years, five advance tracks and an oh-no-she-didn’t Madonna-related backlash, but Lady Gaga’s Born This Way has finally(officially at least) been unleashed on the world. Whereas her debut smash The Fame and the follow up EP The Fame Monster dealt with the upside and dark underbelly of celebrity, Born This Way deals in identity, religious metaphors, individuality and letting your freak flag (or in this case little monster) fly. Continue...

For an artist who champions strange, weird, creative, and beautifully bizarre in all of it’s varied facilities; Lady Gaga’s new album “Born this Way” is none of these things. As we’re constantly thrown into a universe where the Queen of the Monsters rules over every trend popular culture throws at us, you’d imagine she’d take the challenge further and create something viable, something…. Interesting. In reality she created something tired, and boring. Continue...